Hey everyone welcome to talk Nurdy. I'm your host, Kara Santa Maria. I want to thank everybody so much who downloads a podcast, to rates and reviews the podcast on iTunes and

Stitcher who visits the podcast store at kerosana Maria.com and also those of

you who have made donations to help support the

podcast and keep it 100% free to download. So today I want to give a shout out to

Greg Rogers from Flora Hill in Victoria Australia.

Thank you so much for your donation. I want to thank Michael Rogers for his

recurring donation. Thank you so much for that. I also want to thank

Patrick Keller from Hudson, Wisconsin. And lastly I want to thank Rick Richardson as always from Elma Washington. Thank you so much for your

donation. Guys I had the honor this week to travel to Apostacon which was held in Omaha, Nebraska and

this is a free thought convention, so it's a place where a lot of like-minded folks, atheists, agnostics, skeptics, secular

humanists, free thinkers all gathered together to kind of talk about the issues that they

face and to celebrate in their mutual love

for the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

And there was a great talk by Neil degrass Tyson.

There was also a great talk by Lawrence Kraus and if you notice last week, oh why did I say I attended this week? I attended two weeks ago.

If you notice last week I was able to air an interview with David Silverman who is the

president of American Atheists and I recorded that while I was at Apostacon.

I also recorded recorded that while I was at Apostacon.

I also recorded an interview with Professor Lawrence Kraus.

Now, he is a theoretical physicist and cosmologist.

He's actually the foundation professor of the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State

University.

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